Chris Hamamoto is a designer, developer, and educator from the San Francisco Bay Area, now living in Seoul and teaching at Seoul National University. In addition to teaching, he pursues an independent practice focused on how automation and algorithms affect communication and aesthetics – a topic he explores through graphic design, and software design. He has shown work, published, and lectured internationally at institutions such as Printed Matter, the Walker Art Center, Hongik University, Rutgers MGSA, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

Exhibitions

• Stop Asian Hate, Nodul Art Space (Seoul, South Korea)
• Come to Your Census: Who Counts in America?, YBCA (San Francisco, USA)
• OCAT (Shenzhen, China)
• Fun Palace (Shenzhen, China)
• Gwangju Design Biennale, Asia Culture Center (Gwanju, South Korea)
• What about: 29th Brno International Graphic Design Biennial 2020, The White (Tokyo, Japan)
• wmdywtl?, Frans Masereel Centrum (Antwerp, Belgium)
• Más allá del mundo, hay letras, PEANA (Monterey, Mexico)
• POCGD Exhibit, MICA (Baltimore, USA)
• Double Negative, Chashama (New York, USA)
• Bodega ACME, General Prim 30 (Mexico City, Mexico)
• Take Action, Hubbell Street Galleries (San Francisco, USA)
• transient_space, Design Manchester Festival (Manchester, England)
• 2030 Seoul ♥ ♥ Pyongyang, Seoul Design Foundation (Seoul, South Korea)
• Printer Prosthetic: Futura, Fundación Alumnos (Mexico City, Mexico)
• True Forms (beta), IF/THEN (Berkeley, USA)
• Flag Festival, tmoro projects (Santa Clara, USA)
• Mage, Radiator Arts (New York, USA)
• Typojanchi 2017: Mohm Culture Station Seoul 284 (Seoul, South Korea)
• and 019 Gallery (Ghent, Belgium)
• Public Square, YBCA (San Francisco, USA)
• An Image, Oolite Arts - formerly ArtCenter/South Florida (Miami, USA)

Lectures, Workshops, and Guest Critic

• Pillow Lava (Online / Worldwide)
• Seoul National University (Online / Seoul, South Korea)
• Centre A (Online / Vancouver, Canada)
• Rutgers (Online / New Jersey, USA)
• Parsons School of Design (Online / New York, USA)
• University of San Francisco (Online / San Francisco, USA)
• Adjunct (Online / USA)
• Letterform Archive (Online / San Francisco, USA)
• Material Art Fair, Frontón México (Mexico City, Mexico)
• OCAT Shenzhen (Shenzhen, China)
• Handshake 302 (Shenzhen, China)
• The Book Society (Seoul, South Korea)
• Casul UNAM (Mexico City, Mexico)
• Hongik University (Seoul, South Korea)
• Institute Of advancing Uncertainty, (San Francisco, USA)
• SUNY Purchase (New York, USA)
• Santa Clara University (Santa Clara, USA)
• Rhode Island School of Design (Providence, USA)
• Printed Matter NY Art Book Fair (New York, USA)
• Meiyi Art Academy (Beijing, China)
• Meiyi Art Academy (Guangzhou, China)
• Design Principles & Practices (Toronto, Canada)
• Design Principles & Practices (Vancouver, Canada)

Works Included in Books and Magazines

• IDEA No. 391 Alternative Reality
• Echo of Discursion: Shenzhen
• The Graphic Design Process
• IDEA No. 386
• Speculations

Published Writing

• C Magazine
• Walker Art Center: The Gradient

Awards

• OCAT Shenzhen Artist-in-Residence
• STA 100 (2016, 2017, 2019)
• IF/THEN Artist in Residence
• 2017 STA 100
• 2016 STA 100
• Printed Matter Emerging Artists 2016 Publication Series
• YBCA Citizenship Fellow
• Headlands Designer-in-Residence (2014, 2015)